Not So Jolly Fat Man
This is one of those "People who suck" stories...
While leaving the SUPER Target parking lot today, Jordan was yelled at by a fat, man and flipped off by his fat wife. Neither of them resembled a Claus, thank goodness, because children everywhere would have been crying.
Being the passenger in the car, I know for a fact my husband stopped at the stop sign before continuing through the intersection in front of the store-- we were in the Hyundai, which has a standard shift so you kinda have to stop to downshift to first (DUH!). There was even a white Accura coming through the intersection the other direction (even closer to the entrance), which is why Jordan went in the first place.
The man who yelled, "HEY, NICE STOP!" didn't see us stop because, without looking for traffic, he just stepped out behind the Accura as it drove by. He expected us to magically see him stupidly start crossing while traffic was already moving. Shoot, we were half-through the intersection by the time he even stepped out in traffic so he could yell and swear at us as we drove past.
What I think he was upset about was that he didn't look. He didn't see us stop. He ASSUMED that because he's a pedestrian, already moving traffic magically stops after already having stopped at a stop sign. I think, because he put his kids in jeopardy-- because he wasn't exactly watching them and we COULD have hit the kids he wasn't watching-- he blamed us for his errant behaviour and just kinda gut-reacted to the danger he put his kids into.
As a kid growing up, my mom always taught us to LOOK BOTH DIRECTIONS before crossing the street. I'm sorry, but you can't properly check traffic if a white Accura is in your line-of-sight. Not only that, but I personally WATCH WHERE I'M GOING if I'm a pedestrian... simply because if I were to "battle" a vehicle, I'm pretty damned sure I'd lose!
I think I'm more pissed off that this guy is teaching his kids how to swear and his wife is teaching them to give people the finger. That and it really pissed Jordan off because he didn't do anything wrong. That fat man is lucky Jordan was driving because I would have turned around, found the guy, got out of my car and yelled in his face that he needs to get his eyes checked, pay a little more attention to his surroundings.
On that note, I may as well note the other "people who suck" incident from the day. I didn't witness the whole thing because I was looking the other way, but Jordan saw the whole thing. Some guy in a silver Chevy SUV tried to cut across 2-lanes of traffic to pull into foothills mall and almost hit a beige SUV in the right lane. The beige SUV driver laid on the horn as the other fellow, without apparently looking, went half-way into his lane! By the time I had turned my head, I saw the silver Chevy drive past half-in the lane and the beige SUV was still laying on the horn because the other guy was STILL in his lane. Not only that, but it was even more ridiculous when the silver chevy started honking BACK!... like he wasn't at fault. It took him a good long while to even get back in his damned lane!
Dear goodness, we'd better stay home the rest of today because the stupid is just everywhere.
While leaving the SUPER Target parking lot today, Jordan was yelled at by a fat, man and flipped off by his fat wife. Neither of them resembled a Claus, thank goodness, because children everywhere would have been crying.
Being the passenger in the car, I know for a fact my husband stopped at the stop sign before continuing through the intersection in front of the store-- we were in the Hyundai, which has a standard shift so you kinda have to stop to downshift to first (DUH!). There was even a white Accura coming through the intersection the other direction (even closer to the entrance), which is why Jordan went in the first place.
The man who yelled, "HEY, NICE STOP!" didn't see us stop because, without looking for traffic, he just stepped out behind the Accura as it drove by. He expected us to magically see him stupidly start crossing while traffic was already moving. Shoot, we were half-through the intersection by the time he even stepped out in traffic so he could yell and swear at us as we drove past.
What I think he was upset about was that he didn't look. He didn't see us stop. He ASSUMED that because he's a pedestrian, already moving traffic magically stops after already having stopped at a stop sign. I think, because he put his kids in jeopardy-- because he wasn't exactly watching them and we COULD have hit the kids he wasn't watching-- he blamed us for his errant behaviour and just kinda gut-reacted to the danger he put his kids into.
As a kid growing up, my mom always taught us to LOOK BOTH DIRECTIONS before crossing the street. I'm sorry, but you can't properly check traffic if a white Accura is in your line-of-sight. Not only that, but I personally WATCH WHERE I'M GOING if I'm a pedestrian... simply because if I were to "battle" a vehicle, I'm pretty damned sure I'd lose!
I think I'm more pissed off that this guy is teaching his kids how to swear and his wife is teaching them to give people the finger. That and it really pissed Jordan off because he didn't do anything wrong. That fat man is lucky Jordan was driving because I would have turned around, found the guy, got out of my car and yelled in his face that he needs to get his eyes checked, pay a little more attention to his surroundings.
On that note, I may as well note the other "people who suck" incident from the day. I didn't witness the whole thing because I was looking the other way, but Jordan saw the whole thing. Some guy in a silver Chevy SUV tried to cut across 2-lanes of traffic to pull into foothills mall and almost hit a beige SUV in the right lane. The beige SUV driver laid on the horn as the other fellow, without apparently looking, went half-way into his lane! By the time I had turned my head, I saw the silver Chevy drive past half-in the lane and the beige SUV was still laying on the horn because the other guy was STILL in his lane. Not only that, but it was even more ridiculous when the silver chevy started honking BACK!... like he wasn't at fault. It took him a good long while to even get back in his damned lane!
Dear goodness, we'd better stay home the rest of today because the stupid is just everywhere.